RAVEL | Valses nobles et sentimentales: IV. mm. 14–16

 
Piano fingerings for Valses nobles et sentimentales by Maurice Ravel

SPECIAL COLLECTION | Dorothy Brandwein’s Ravel Fingerings

Published on 4/7/2022 with the author’s permission

First appeared in Dorothy Woster Brandwein, "Divisi Fingering in Selected Passages from Ravel's Solo Piano Works" (DMA diss., University of Missouri–Kansas City, 1981), 60, 108.

60: “Legato fingering is very useful in shaping the melodic phrases of Ravel's music. All the measures in Example 44 use divisi fingering in order that the performer may attain a better legato connection between notes.”

 
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